People Began Breaking COVID Rules When They Saw Those With Privilege Dismiss Them

We’ve heard repeatedly during the past year that until mass vaccination is achieved, the key to addressing the COVID 19 epidemic is controlling human behaviour. Yet as cases in the United Kingdom continue to spiral, with more stringent social constraints being enforced every few days, a key question remains, is anyone complying any more?

Compliance has been one of the most misconstrued and misrepresented concepts of this pandemic.

During the first wave of the virus back in the spring, there was concern that a prolonged lockdown would lead to behavioural fatigue and diminishing compliance with social constraints.

Behavioural fatigue was not a scientific concept but a political one, neither reinforced by research from prior epidemics nor by data that subsequently emerged from our lockdown (over 97 per cent showed good compliance with the rules, with no significant decline from March to May).

During emergencies, humans are primed to act in the collective interest, as we saw from the sacrifices made by people in the spring of 2020 across the United Kingdom.

It was only as the lockdown was eased that compliance started to decline, partly because people felt that the situation was safer, but other factors contributed too.

For many, the new rules were just too difficult to comprehend. While during lockdown 90 per cent of adults in the United Kingdom reported feeling they understood the rules, by August this figure was just 45 per cent in England.

Inconsistent rules across the UK nations, frequent modifications to rules, and confusion about dates of announcement, as opposed to dates of implementation, exacerbated the problem.

But the message from the Government about compliance also changed after the disclosures about the actions of Dominic Cummings, which were followed by a decline in adherence.

Returning to a single event might seem like bearing a grudge, but it was climactic for numerous reasons.

During the lockdown, the message on compliance was evident – restrictions were necessary to stop the spread of the virus, so everyone had to play their part, no excuses, no exemptions, but Dominic Cummings changed the tone – if you could find a loophole in the regulations, it somehow became acceptable and defensible to break them.

The enemy switched from being the virus itself to being the measures designed to impede the virus.

This shift in tone didn’t go unnoticed, as research at UCL showed.

The same sacrifices people had willingly made in the spring as part of a collective social responsibility suddenly seemed less necessary.

Goodwill turned to rage and resentment, largely targeted towards the Government that supported Dominic Cummings actions, and confidence in the Government to handle the pandemic took a quick downward turn in England, from which it’s never recovered since.

Trust is critical, as research has shown, it’s one of the biggest behavioural predictors of compliance during this pandemic – larger than mental health, belief in the health service or numerous other factors, and as humans, we need to trust our authorities if we’re to follow what they tell us to do.

Dominic Cummings certainly has a lot to answer for in undermining the very transparent messaging in the first lockdown.

The problem is the tier rules and the nuances of what is and is not acceptable have been quite confusing, altered far too often and have been badly worded.

And when one talks about privilege and violating the rules, the great straw that broke the camel’s back was Dominic Cummings with his breakdown of the lockdown rules, although there were others with privilege that did the same as well.

Also, all credibility and the support of the public was lost when Boris Johnson and his Government threw in their lot to defend Dominic Cummings breaking of the lockdown rules.

The Dominic Cummings moment is now recognised as the moment where the Government relinquished control of the messaging, and looking back now, it seems even more remarkable than it did at the time that Boris Johnson went to such heights to defend his man.

But it could have been so different, as other countries have proved.

Giving practical, honest, realistic information, the grounds for restrictions and the importance of working together and the possible outcomes would have set quite a different scene, and unfortunately once a scene is established it’s extremely difficult to change it.

Television Is Too White

The actor, Lenny Henry said streaming services such as Netflix are better than terrestrial channels at portraying Britain’s ethnic diversity.

It’s been the most talked-about show of the Christmas season, with black performers cast in leading roles in Regency-era England.

Now Bridgerton, the blockbuster period drama on Netflix, could find itself at the epicentre of a politically charged controversy about diversity and the fate of television.

Sir Lenny Henry has warned that the BBC and other terrestrial broadcasters risk losing black and Asian viewers to on-demand streaming services because they feel such services do a better job at portraying their lives.

The Comic Relief co-founder wrote that if British broadcasters didn’t tackle the diversity grey rhino now, they ran the risk of losing large parts of their audience permanently.

He said that one in five Britons would be from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background by 2031 and he added that investigation had shown this segment of society was watching on-demand streaming services more than others as they felt that shows do a better job at portraying their lives than terrestrial broadcasters such as The BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and ITV.

The actor made the call for diversity in all facets of TV, on-screen and behind the camera, in his new book, ‘Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond’, which was co-written by Marcus Ryder, a media diversity specialist, and will be released on Thursday by Faber.

Recent examples of the streaming service Netflix has succeeded in casting a more eclectic range of actors than broadcasters such as ITV can be seen in its hit show Bridgerton, which is set in early 19th century London and held colour-blind casting calls.

The period drama, which was based on Julia Quinn’s best selling novels, follows the romance between Daphne Bridgerton, played by Phoebe Dynevor and Simon Basset played by Regé-Jean Page, a British-Zimbabwean performer and has been tipped to become the next Downton Abbey after it enjoyed a thriving takeoff on the streaming site this Christmas.

In the show King George III’s wife Queen Charlotte is black, played by British actress Golda Rosheuvel, 49, with Ms Quinn, the author, backing the colour conscious casting and adding that numerous historians believe Queen Charlotte had some African background.

Sir Lenny Henry appeared to take a swipe at the lack of diversity on ITV’s hit show Downton Abbey, which had a predominantly white cast, noting in his book that the nominee list at the Royal Television Society’s annual awards was like a Downton Abbey Christmas special.

If people are talented and funny enough they will get the breaks wherever they come from and whatever colour they are. Lenny Henry is a Sir, so he’s done rather well for himself – the same applies to all sportsmen and women.

However, people should be given the same education and opportunities to flourish and nobody should be given a position purely based on the colour of their skin, religion or who they’re related to.

If someone has the education, the work ethic and the personality, then they should be given the same opportunities as the next person, but is Sir Lenny Henry just trying to whip up conflict? And with his triumphant career, he doesn’t need to play the race card.

Perhaps he should just keep his mouth closed, after all, he’s done well for himself, so why ruffle feathers? And he’s been stealing a living for decades – I’ve had more comic toothaches.

COVID Vaccine Is Given To Over 1,000,000 Brits

With the vaccine roll out accelerating, the end is in sight and we will get through this together, Matt Hancock said in a tweet.

It comes as the rollout of the new Oxford and AstraZeneca jab is due to start on Monday after the United Kingdom was the first country in the world to approve it.

The roll-out of the Pfizer vaccine, which the United Kingdom was also first to approve, started nearly a month ago.

The Government has ordered 100 million doses of the Oxford jab, enough to vaccinate 50 million people, nearly the whole UK adult population, as two doses are required.

And while ministers have insisted that the approval of the vaccines means COVID restrictions could be lifted by Spring, scientists and medics are less optimistic as the nation labours to fight off the second wave.

More than half a million doses of the Oxford jab will be available from next week, but that’s far short of the 30 million doses the Government originally said it would have accumulated by autumn.

And concerns are increasing over the rate of vaccinations achieved so far as the NHS manages with record numbers of hospital admissions driven by a new, more contagious strain of the virus.

Scientific advisers have estimated that at least two million vaccinations a week could be needed, as well as a lockdown that includes school closures, to avoid the pressure on intensive care surpassing the peak of the first wave.

Ministers have altered the strategy to give as many vulnerable people as possible the first dose, and the Government revealed this week that it will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart, having originally planned to leave 21 days between the Pfizer jabs.

However, the move has been criticised by GP leaders, with The British Medical Association saying cancelling patients booked in for their second doses was grossly unjust.

For the Oxford vaccine, the plan is consistent with a finding that waiting 12 weeks maximises protection against the virus, but the makers of the Pfizer jab said it had no data to indicate that protection after the first dose was sustained after 21 days.

The UK’s chief medical officers have supported the decision, saying the United Kingdom needs to urgently maximise the number of people who receive the jab and that the great majority of initial protection came from the first dose.

Even though it’s wonderful news that the jab is here, numerous people will believe that by getting the jab it will thoroughly protect them from getting coronavirus and passing it on.

It probably won’t, but at least the symptoms will be less if you do catch it, but at the moment we’re all acting like it’s some miracle cure.

The virus is so deadly that it only has a 99.9 per cent survival rate if caught.

99.98 per cent for the under 30’s, 99.97 per cent for under 50’s, 98.97 per cent for under 70’s and 94.5 per cent for over 80’s, assuming the person has no underlying health problems.

The average age of death from it is 82.

Sixteen hundred people die daily in the United Kingdom pre-COVID, but no hysteria and Pneumonia, Flu/Influenza et cetera can all cause long term secondary damage.

If your worried stay at home, lose weight, have your vaccine, which probably won’t stop the transmission and shut the hell up – basically, that’s what the Government are telling you to do.

Madeleine McCann’s Parents Say Their Hope, Strength And Resolve Remains

The parents of Madeleine McCann have said in a New Year message that their hope, strength and perseverance to find their daughter remains steadfast.

And in a message posted on the Official Find Madeleine Campaign website, Kate and Gerry McCann said their thoughts and prayers were with everyone who’s suffered during 2020.

The statement, which thanked well-wishers, said goodbye to 2020. What a year, and one we don’t want to remember but will find it difficult to forget, and it said there was no doubt that 2020 had been difficult for most people, and often distressing, with so much loss, fear and solitariness.

And that despite losing a parent each, they were aware they had been more fortunate than many, with their family unit at home and jobs to go to.

The couple, from Rothley in Leicestershire, acknowledged the investigation to locate Madeleine had understandably been forced to slow down as a consequence of the pandemic.

And they added that it hadn’t ceased, nevertheless, the hope, strength and perseverance to find her and discover the truth remained steadfast, and they said that they were extremely grateful for the ongoing support, especially throughout the rubbish year that everybody has had and for all the Christmas wishes too.

They said that their thoughts and prayers were with everyone who’s suffered due to the pandemic and they hoped that 2021 was a more optimistic, more cheerful one.

Madeleine was almost four when she went missing from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, on Portugal’s Algarve, on May 3, 2007, but Scotland Yard confirmed it had no plans to end its missing person investigation, despite the view of German prosecutors that Madeleine was killed.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said the force was working closely with the German authorities but didn’t expect them to communicate all of their evidence.

A suspect in the German inquiry, Christian Brueckner, was told last November that he will remain behind bars until 2026, after losing a bid to overturn a rape conviction.

He was last year found guilty of the 2005 rape of a 72-year-old American woman in the same Portuguese resort and condemned to seven years in prison, at a court in Brunswick, Lower Saxony.

The 43-year-old German national, referred to as Christian B in Germany due to the country’s stringent privacy laws, was identified as a suspect in the Madeleine investigation last June.

But what parent in their right mind leaves their four-year-old daughter in a room to go out to eat? And was this not total neglect? However, we can’t say anything about the parents that they’ve not said to themselves, presumably over and over again, and they’ve paid an extreme price for their blunder.

Years ago most holidaymakers used to leave their children in chalets and caravans and you had people called a chalet patrol go round listening to see if they’d heard any of the children up or crying.

They used to have a tannoy system that would let you know if children were awake. It was equivalent to a baby monitor we have now.

It was just an acceptable thing so that grown-ups could enjoy some adult recreation and children could get some rest.

People and children should be safe on holiday and you definitely don’t expect a murderer to be watching you and waiting to pounce.

It’s very sad what happened, but some might say that this child has been tagged as special, yet there are children out there that have been abducted or worse, every day, yet you don’t see those being dragged on for years and years.

But we should welcome the time, attention and money given to this case because it allows for a significant improvement in how these cases are handled and lessons learnt.

Dog Walker Suffers Anaphylactic Shock

A woman with a severe allergy had to go to the hospital after she was pelted with eggs while walking her dog in Coventry.

The 40-year-old was with a friend when two men in a white van drove by them and tossed the eggs which struck both of them.

The victim instantly suffered an anaphylactic shock and her daughter had to run to find them in Brownshill Green Road and give her mum her EpiPen.

The incident happened between the garden centre and the residential home near Waste Lane at around 12.15 pm on Wednesday, December 30.

The woman, who’s a teacher and didn’t wish to be named told CoventryLive that she meets her friend regularly to walk their dogs together and they were in Brownshill Green Road when they felt something hitting them and there was a van going past with two men in their 20s pelting eggs.

She said that they weren’t too far from her partner’s house and her daughter was there so she ran down to them with the EpiPen, and she said that she took off her coat and removed as much clothing as she could that had the egg on it.

She said that they then walked back and they could see several eggs on both sides of the road, so they’d clearly tried to get other people as well.

She said that her eyes were watering so much that she struggled to see what make of van it was or get the registration plate, but she was able to make out that it was a small white van with writing on the side and a built-in ladder on part of the roof.

And she said that she’s still feeling the effects of the anaphylactic shock and an ambulance was called out to their home that evening as she had another reaction.

Her friend also suffered a swollen hand in the incident after being struck by one of the eggs.

There’s been growing incidence’s of extreme violence and also gratuitous anti-social behaviour, and Coventry is becoming a truly nasty place to live for many.

This wasn’t children that were hurling the eggs, these were fully developed men – if it had been children, we could have argued that they didn’t know any better, but then some people just don’t think of the consequences of their actions.

And more education is needed in general about this because numerous people think that food has to be ingested to cause injury, but this isn’t accurate at all, and there’s also a loophole in the law because you could say that you had no idea that throwing food could kill someone, but if people were educated about this, there would be no excuse.

Boy, 3, Dumped In Freezing Graveyard With His Pet Pooch

Tony was spotted running after an automobile with his dog as it tore away leaving him unattended in the cold at a graveyard, the boy has since been taken in by a foster family while his family were tracked down.

The three-year-old boy was dumped with his pet pooch in a snow-covered cemetery just two days before Christmas.

The tot was spotted running after an automobile as it pulled away leaving him alone with his canine companion in freezing temperatures.

A woman reported the heartbreaking scene as the child attempted to keep up with the fleeing car, as it left the Hope Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Hinckley, Ohio, on Wednesday, December 23.

The woman contacted the police and said the boy and his dog were running after a blue, medium-sized automobile.

Police arrived and discovered the boy, who told them his name was Tony and they took the boy and his pooch into protective custody.

The boy knew the first names of his mum and dad but had no idea where he lived, so the child was put in foster care and the police made a public appeal to locate his family.

Tony’s relatives spotted his picture in the local media and contacted his father, who the police have said has been extremely cooperative.

Police say the boy was supposed to be in his mother’s custody when he was dumped, and in a statement, Hinckley Police Department said that while the investigation is still ongoing with a bunch of questions unanswered they wanted to assure everyone that Tony was doing extremely well in the caring home of a foster family in Medina County.

They said that his father had been extremely cooperative with them and Children Services in the investigation and that they would release further details when they could, and the community came together and brought dozens of Christmas presents for the little boy, who has found himself living with a foster family over the festivities.

Hinckley Police Department’s spokesman added that he wanted to thank everyone for their kindness in wanting to buy Christmas gifts for Tony and the people who took him in, and that they were all wonderful people and that they have a fantastic community in Hinckley, all of Medina County and beyond.

How could anyone anywhere leave their child and a dog in a graveyard in baltic conditions and drive away without a care in the world? It’s unbelievable and inexcusable and it’s difficult to believe that there are people like this out there in the world.

I just hope that his dog was not taken away from him – losing all that love in one day, that’s just too much, but now, hopefully, the dad will get custody of the child.

It could be that the mother has a mental illness, either that, or she’s just a parasite – he was left in a cemetery for Christ sake and she should be charged because she dumped him and left him vulnerable and helpless.

She should get what she deserves, mental illness or not. Why couldn’t she have just left him somewhere warm, like a hospital, anywhere, but not a cemetery?

This poor child was dumped by the one person who was supposed to care for him and it astounds me how anyone can be so callous and I hope that they find the savage of a mother so that she can be punished for the crime that she’s committed.

Clearly, the parents weren’t together and the child was supposed to be with his mother at the time, and although the dad is being cooperative, he probably won’t take him home anytime soon.

What on earth goes through some people’s brains – to think about this awful behaviour and then to actually act on it? And it looks like people just don’t abandon their pets, but they now also abandon their children.

THIRD RAVE

A string of illegal New Year’s Eve raves are being secretly planned across Tier 4 London, a news outlet revealed.

Thousands of people are expected to attend the events which could send COVID spreading even faster through the capital.

Organisers aren’t being hindered by the possibility of £10,000 fines and are scheduling events similar to those in the summer when a string of illegal raves sent the R rate soaring.

It comes after illegal raves and warehouse parties were blamed on driving a surge in coronavirus, leading to further lockdown misery.

Three-quarters of England is now in Tier 4, with some 44 million people under the most stringent restrictions and household mixing prohibited.

Doctors have appealed to Brits not to party with friends on New Year’s Eve after hospitals were wall to wall with COVID patients on Christmas Day and the police have threatened Brits with £10,000 fines tonight if they break COVID rules to throw New Year’s Eve parties, with the country being told to remain at home.

Everyone across the nation has been ordered to act as if they have coronavirus and to remain within their households this Christmas, but one person behind a massive end of year party said they planned to throw a party so people could say good riddance to 2020.

It was discovered that one of the largest planned raves, known as the Good Vibrez rave, last took place during the summer at a secret location in east London and pictures posted on social media after the event revealed that the event took place close to a road flyover.

This time the organisers are advertising a New Year’s Eve event to be held at a secret location and the only clues organisers will give away is that it will be at a covered outdoor London location.

People wishing to attend must sign up to an Instagram account and supply evidence of identification in a private message before purchasing a ticket.

Top of the bill is a garage set by Mutant, following similar sounds to be played by Mark H Nostalgic.

Other acts advertised included an eclectic dance mix by Andy Mills and drum and bass sets from Annicca, Myro and Casper, but it’s unclear if any of the acts will be there in person or if they’re even aware they being linked to the illegal events.

Earlier this year, a news outlet investigation uncovered dozens of illegal parties were super spreading events which contributed to a 300 per cent spike in cases nationwide.

Perhaps we should just let them get on with it, it’s not like intelligence is much of a thing these days and the virus has demonstrated that and this has brought out the dimness in people and it seems that some people are a lost cause.

I can’t condemn them though, they’re just youngsters wanting to socialise. Perhaps they believe that herd immunity is best, but we can’t put all teenagers in this category because quite a few of them are abiding by the rules.

Older generations fought in wars for freedom, but now we’ve had our freedoms taken away and are being threatened by the police and fines – is this not modern slavery?

The planet we now live in has changed, and not for the better. When I was younger, we didn’t have plastic carrier bags, our milk and soft drinks came in glass bottles, our fish and chips came in a newspaper, not polystyrene boxes, our meat was from a butcher, not wrapped in plastics, our vegetables were from the greengrocer in paper bags – there were no disposable nappies and no fast-food restaurants, need I go on.

IS IT HOT IN HERE?

Local media reports that China is on course to finish creating an artificial sun before the end of the year.

The remarkable structure will be capable of reaching 100 million degrees Celcius, six times hotter than the centre of our Sun.

Scientists hope that the artificial sun will help harness the power of nuclear fusion.

This would bring humankind a step nearer to creating unlimited clean energy, by imitating reactions that naturally occur inside the Sun.

The artificial sun was first announced by Chinese researchers last November, but the project has just hit an important milestone.

Chinese media reports that early trials have permitted researchers to create stunningly elevated temperatures and researchers are using a device called a tokamak, which uses a powerful magnetic field to snare hot plasma.

Our Sun hits temperatures of about 15 million degrees Celcius at its core, but the plasma from China’s artificial sun has reached an electron temperature of 100 million degrees Celcius, and an ion temperature of 50 million degrees Celcius.

Duan Xuru, an official at the China National Nuclear Corporation, told Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of China’s Ministry of Science and Technology that ions are what generate energy in the device.

So the goal is to now bring the ion temperature up to 100 million degrees too.

Ion temperature is usually lower than electron temperature, so this may be difficult and Duan said the device needs to be tweaked to hit the goal.

As well as high pressure, nuclear fusion needs extremely elevated temperatures, which the artificial sun could supply.

If successful, China will be able to provide a major helping hand to ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.

It’s a major undertaking involving scientists from 35 countries that aims to ‘new energy’ sources using nuclear fusion.

If nuclear fusion can be harness using a low energy method, it could allow for the creation of unlimited clean energy.

China recently germinated a seed on the Moon in a world first and the eastern nation recently revealed creepy virtual newsreaders that can deliver unwavering 27/7 content, and a Chinese scientist recently claimed to have created the world’s first gene-edited babies.

And if they can recreate the Sun, how can we be certain that they didn’t create coronavirus – this is an extremely scary thought that we’re all now involved in – I have a bad feeling about this!

And this is another situation that will probably fail, but who will handle this failure when the project goes awry? And what is their master plan? And they should take back the virus they brought to the world before creating an artificial sun we don’t need.

This is foolishness coming from China and when are they going to stop?

They need to be stomped down on and it seems that someone should have some authority over them.

Welsh Performer Michael Sheen Admits He Gave Back His OBE

Michael Sheen has risked a backlash after announcing that he gave back his OBE years after receiving it from the Queen.

The performer said he made the controversial move to avoid looking a hypocrite before giving a speech on the history of his native Wales, including past wrongs perpetrated by England.

And he called for the tradition of giving the heir to the throne the title of Prince of Wales to be discarded when Charles becomes king, saying it was an embarrassment for the Welsh.

The 51-year-old, whose acclaimed roles have included Tony Blair, football boss Brian Clough and commentator David Frost, accepted the recognition from the Queen at Buckingham Palace in 2009.

However, he gave it back after researching Welsh history while preparing to give a lecture to students in 2017.

He said he realised it would be insincere for him to discuss the association between Wales and the British state while still having the OBE and Michael Sheen said reading up on the history of Wales for the annual Raymond Williams lecture, named after a Marxist intellectual, had opened his eyes to problems still resonate today.

He added that in his research to do that lecture he learnt a lot about Welsh history and that he was still standing at the foothills of an understanding of all that, but that was a crash course.

He said that by the time he’d finished writing the lecture, he recalled sitting there thinking to himself that he had a choice. Either he didn’t give the lecture and he could hold onto his OBE or he could give the lecture and he would have to give his OBE back.

He still wanted to give the lecture so he gave his OBE back.

He said he told the Palace at the time that he didn’t mean to be rude and felt extremely honoured to have received it back in 2009 and he said that he meant absolutely no disrespect by doing this and that he didn’t want to cause a big debate about it.

Father of two, Michael Sheen said the OBE had meant a lot to him and his family and had helped him in lots of ways and that people have asked why he’s got so upset about things that occurred hundreds of years ago, but he said it still has power here.

This was extremely commendable of him because we should never trade our beliefs to fit in with the norm and we should be true to ourselves, no matter what that is.

We might not be able to control history, but we can attempt to prevent these things from happening again in the United Kingdom, but the same can be said about every country because there are times when past bad behaviour isn’t taken into consideration so that we can move on.

But good for him and congratulations to all those who’ve laboured hard over the years to ensure that the Welsh language prevails.

Performers shouldn’t be given these awards anyhow, they only used to be given to people who deserved them.

People Are Seriously Arguing Whether Tom Hanks Has Ever Starred In A Great Film

Sparked by end of year lists and God knows what else, potentially boredom, people are beginning to wonder whether the beloved actor Tom Hanks has ever really been in a good movie.

Yes, he’s been in numerous classic movies, notably, romcoms like Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail, but his breakout role was in Forrest Gump, but people on Twitter appear to be discussing whether Tom Hanks has had a good filmography or just a prolific one and after an end of year list from Vulture, Will Leitch and Tom Grierson ranked all of the movies that Tom Hanks has ever been in.

Some would suggest that Tom Hanks might be an adaptable performer, but he does tend to recreate a version of the same person, well-intentioned, everyman, in every movie and this tweet seemed to be the match that lit the fire, which has continued to rage for several days.

Of course, no one’s arguing that every single film that Tom Hanks has played a role in is perfect, there’s, after all, He Knows You’re Alone, Tom Hank’s film debut which was also a horror movie that knocked off Halloween very clearly.

But this star turns in films like A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood, about Mr Rogers, which came out last year – A League of their Own, and of course, Cast Away, which would suggest he’s a fantastic performer who’s been in several splendid movies.

People disagreed, as they’re likely to do on Twitter, to varying degrees.

Some pointed out that great movies can also be entertaining and that they don’t have to be great in the most pretentious sense of the word.

Perhaps it’s not a bad idea. After all, if two people can’t decide on whether Toy Story was a good film or not, then maybe all of these discussions won’t lead us anywhere particularly useful.

Many of his movies were great, some were better than others though, and he’s pretty much just himself in all of his films.

He has an extremely unique voice and presence and I’ve enjoyed most of his movies, he’s a fantastic performer, but in my view, his role in Philadelphia was his best career performance, but even then, I believe Denzel Washington’s performance was even better and more Oscar-worthy.

Nonetheless, Tom Hanks has starred in many amazing films and many have been critically acclaimed and Saving Private Ryan transformed the genre of war films and to think this is not a fantastic movie would be daft, but Philadelphia was a hugely influential movie.

Here’s the debate though. Tom Hanks has starred in some really good movies – yes – end of debate!

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